This is the real problem. I seen on another thread where Claymore's wallet balance was over $1 Million in ETH from just one of his Dev fee addresses. I am not saying he does or does not deserve this, as I do feel he deserves compensation, the question is how much.

I am sure there are a lot of very talented developers out there who could make a comparable program, if not better, and claim a piece of that seemingly very lucrative market. Even a 0.5% mining fee would yield more income in a year than many top developer salaries in the corporate world, so it really surprises me that there is not more competition in this regard.

I am sure there are some large private mining farms who hire developers to custom make their own proprietary mining software, but with such large amounts of income available from a public fee-based miner, there sure are not a lot of choices.

So until there are more competitive choices which feature more reasonable fees, I guess Claymore has free reign to charge what he wishes.